Police May Have Identified Suspects Who Beat, Tortured West Seattle Teen
Seattle police may have identified two men suspected of beating and torturing a teen for four hours on a dark West Seattle street.
According to a police report released yesterday, the 15-year-old victim, identified as Shane McClellan, was walking home from a friend's birthday party at 2:00am on May 25th when two men—described as a black male and a Filipino male in their 20s—stopped him and asked him for a light.
McClellan told police the two men then grabbed him and dragged him up a stairway to a dead end street on 14th Ave SW and SW McClellan, where they beat him, whipped him with is own belt, and burned him with lit cigarettes, and urinated on him for the next four hours. During the beating, the men allegedly told McClellan "the white man has kept us down" and "this is for enslaving our people."
The men then fled the scene with McClellan's MP3 player, $27, and the teen's coat. McClellan was left with a broken nose, chipped teeth and welts all over his body.
McClellan stumbled down the street and was helped home by a passerby. The incident was reported to police, and the report says officers found empty cans of Loko energy beer and several cigarette butts at the scene.
Not far from where McClellan says he was attacked, police spotted two men matching the description of the suspects. Officers noticed that the men were carrying the same Loko energy beer and brand of cigarettes found at the scene. One of the men was also covered in blood, according to the police report.
Police then confirmed the identities of the men, took down their information, and let them go. The report indicates police released the men because did not yet have a clear description of the suspects when officers contacted the two men at a bus stop.
More as this develops.